Cancer: Medical Treatments
Commons · Question 88814 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure anticancer agents can be offered on the NHS for the duration of people’s cancer treatment.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 26 Nov 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that develops authoritative, evidence-based recommendations on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service based on an assess...